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Levetiracetam blood level test

CPT 80177the billing code this page is about

A blood test that measures the amount of the seizure medicine levetiracetam in the blood.

Hospitals typically charge $82 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,171 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $85. Most fall between $30 and $165 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,171
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 25, 2026

Median: half of hospitals filed less, half more — and it is a price some hospital actually filed. Average of the middle 60%: the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain average, the lowest or the highest price: the extremes in hospital price files are chargemaster artefacts, not prices anyone pays.

What hospitals charge, from cheapest to most expensive

Cash price percentiles, outpatient, across 3,171 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$18$36$82$146$231

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($18 vs $231).

How the prices are spread

$13 – $18: 176 hospitals$13$18 – $25: 202 hospitals$25 – $35: 248 hospitals$25$35 – $48: 283 hospitals$48 – $66: 317 hospitals$48$66 – $91: 376 hospitals$91 – $126: 432 hospitals$91$126 – $174: 410 hospitals$174 – $240: 295 hospitals$174$240 – $331: 138 hospitals$240median $82price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,877 of 3,171 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$13$18176
$18$25202
$25$35248
$35$48283
$48$66317
$66$91376
$91$126432
$126$174410
$174$240295
$240$331138

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $82.

Alaska: median $176 across 18 hospitalsAK$176Maine: median $72 across 26 hospitalsME$72Vermont: median $188 across 13 hospitalsVT$188New Hampshire: median $77 across 25 hospitalsNH$77Washington: median $104 across 72 hospitalsWA$104Idaho: median $71 across 22 hospitalsID$71Montana: median $86 across 29 hospitalsMT$86North Dakota: median $91 across 29 hospitalsND$91Minnesota: median $89 across 105 hospitalsMN$89Illinois: median $104 across 139 hospitalsIL$104Wisconsin: median $100 across 103 hospitalsWI$100Michigan: median $55 across 92 hospitalsMI$55New York: median $48 across 102 hospitalsNY$48Massachusetts: median $104 across 50 hospitalsMA$104Oregon: median $71 across 48 hospitalsOR$71Nevada: median $75 across 20 hospitalsNV$75Wyoming: median $99 across 16 hospitalsWY$99South Dakota: median $204 across 40 hospitalsSD$204Iowa: median $112 across 87 hospitalsIA$112Indiana: median $98 across 94 hospitalsIN$98Ohio: median $81 across 137 hospitalsOH$81Pennsylvania: median $55 across 119 hospitalsPA$55New Jersey: median $15 across 57 hospitalsNJ$15Connecticut: median $68 across 23 hospitalsCT$68Rhode Island: median $35 across 10 hospitalsRI$35California: median $25 across 117 hospitalsCA$25Utah: median $218 across 40 hospitalsUT$218Colorado: median $91 across 62 hospitalsCO$91Nebraska: median $184 across 79 hospitalsNE$184Missouri: median $68 across 73 hospitalsMO$68Kentucky: median $119 across 68 hospitalsKY$119West Virginia: median $42 across 39 hospitalsWV$42Virginia: median $61 across 72 hospitalsVA$61Maryland: median $41 across 41 hospitalsMD$41Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $45 across 35 hospitalsAZ$45New Mexico: median $43 across 23 hospitalsNM$43Kansas: median $94 across 80 hospitalsKS$94Arkansas: median $33 across 37 hospitalsAR$33Tennessee: median $72 across 81 hospitalsTN$72North Carolina: median $50 across 87 hospitalsNC$50South Carolina: median $145 across 48 hospitalsSC$145Oklahoma: median $75 across 69 hospitalsOK$75Louisiana: median $59 across 49 hospitalsLA$59Mississippi: median $69 across 53 hospitalsMS$69Alabama: median $85 across 43 hospitalsAL$85Georgia: median $94 across 103 hospitalsGA$94Hawaii: median $83 across 19 hospitalsHI$83Texas: median $133 across 227 hospitalsTX$133Florida: median $26 across 143 hospitalsFL$26
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $82. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT40$218+166%$149 – $256
South Dakota SD40$204+148%$145 – $294
Vermont VT13$188+129%$81 – $234
Nebraska NE79$184+124%$81 – $252
Alaska AK18$176+114%$64 – $338
South Carolina SC48$145+77%$84 – $181
Texas TX227$133+62%$44 – $270
Kentucky KY68$119+46%$40 – $192
Iowa IA87$112+37%$66 – $184
Illinois IL139$104+27%$54 – $222
Washington WA72$104+27%$49 – $149
Massachusetts MA50$104+27%$42 – $168
Wisconsin WI103$100+22%$62 – $148
Wyoming WY16$99+20%$40 – $170
Indiana IN94$98+19%$29 – $234
Georgia GA103$94+15%$41 – $177
Kansas KS80$94+15%$51 – $153
Colorado CO62$91+11%$37 – $157
North Dakota ND29$91+11%$24 – $134
Minnesota MN105$89+8%$41 – $135
Montana MT29$86+5%$42 – $138
Alabama AL43$85+3%$41 – $181
Hawaii HI19$83+1%$67 – $120
Ohio OH137$81−2%$45 – $185
New Hampshire NH25$77−6%$30 – $214
Oklahoma OK69$75−9%$44 – $168
Nevada NV20$75−9%$30 – $131
Maine ME26$72−12%$30 – $230
Tennessee TN81$72−13%$23 – $133
Idaho ID22$71−13%$33 – $164
Oregon OR48$71−14%$40 – $124
Mississippi MS53$69−16%$31 – $133
Missouri MO73$68−17%$46 – $111
Connecticut CT23$68−18%$41 – $110
Virginia VA72$61−26%$23 – $139
Louisiana LA49$59−28%$23 – $135
Michigan MI92$55−33%$18 – $102
Pennsylvania PA119$55−33%$20 – $156
North Carolina NC87$50−39%$25 – $118
New York NY102$48−42%$16 – $161
Arizona AZ35$45−45%$22 – $222
New Mexico NM23$43−48%$24 – $120
West Virginia WV39$42−49%$31 – $183
Maryland MD41$41−50%$32 – $49
Rhode Island RI10$35−57%$29 – $106
Arkansas AR37$33−60%$9 – $88
Florida FL143$26−69%$14 – $79
California CA117$25−70%$14 – $59
New Jersey NJ57$15−81%$13 – $46
Delaware DE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price

Hospitals like yours

The same distribution cut by the kind of hospital. Hospital type and ownership come from CMS; a hospital counts as part of a system when its price file is shared with at least one other hospital under the same brand. The national median is $82.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,181$69$25 – $153
Children’s51$89$33 – $185
Critical access929$105$47 – $185
Ownership
For-profit429$96$26 – $300
Government592$90$37 – $167
Non-profit2,140$74$29 – $156
System affiliation
Part of a system2,587$81$28 – $168
Independent584$83$39 – $157

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$132
Median cash price$82
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. The share is the median of each hospital’s own cash ÷ list ratio, over hospitals that filed both — not the ratio of the two medians above.

The same procedure, inpatient

2,148 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $82 and the average of the middle 60% is $85; most fall between $33 and $159.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,148 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$22$39$82$142$215

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($22 vs $215).

Of the 2,365 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,148 gave a usable cash price; 112 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 105 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,171 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (80%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,451 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,171
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here151
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded4
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded125
Hospitals that filed this code3,451

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • Since our last snapshot: there is no earlier snapshot at least 90 days older than this one yet.

We last checked these hospitals’ price files for changes between July 20, 2026 and September 25, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 25, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Other Laboratory family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as HC Keppra(Levetiracetam).

Method

Source
The machine-readable price files every U.S. hospital is required by CMS to publish, parsed per hospital. Nothing is surveyed, sampled or modelled.
What counts
One cash (self-pay) price per hospital for this code and setting. A hospital’s own filing can rule its number out — a placeholder, a “not applicable” note, a list price standing in for cash — and our plausibility checks can flag a price far below what every other hospital files. Both kinds are disclosed above and excluded from the statistics; on the compare tool a flagged price is still shown.
Statistics
Percentiles are discrete: each is a price some hospital filed. The average is the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain mean, the minimum or the maximum. A state needs 10 hospitals and a segment 20 to show a figure; otherwise the row shows its count and no number. Medicare is the national unadjusted OPPS rate where one exists.
Names
Procedure names on these pages are our own plain-language titles, not the AMA’s copyrighted CPT descriptors. The code is the identity.

The full rules — sources, statistics, thresholds, limitations — are on the methodology page.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Levetiracetam blood level test (CPT 80177) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-80177-levetiracetam-blood-level-test